Thanks very much.. point taken on ISERROR so have used ISNA.

"Nicky" wrote:

My VLOOKUP is returning #N/A because the cell which is the lookup value isn't
in the table array its looking it up in. I am copying this data over from
another source . Is there a way to return either 0 or "" . As soon as I put
the lookup reference in the data table it works fine. I have tryed ISBLANK
and ISNA but doesn't seem to work.
Below is what I am currently using.

=IF(ISBLANK(A5),"",VLOOKUP(A5,GOODSIN,3,FALSE))

many thanks...Nicky